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For Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to become a reality, the services must accelerate integration between intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control, and fire control systems. According to DoD and industry officials, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in a standards-driven environment will be crucial to making necessary advancements.

Melding these technologies together was one of the main objectives of the Northern Edge 21 exercise that took place in the first half of May in Alaska. The goal of the exercise was to show that U.S. forces can operate in a joint all-domain environment (JADO) against near-peer/peer competitors like China. As such, it was not a coincidence that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and other Pacific-based forces from the Army and Air Force took the lead in the exercise aimed at this potential Pacific adversary…



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